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What makes you say that? This didn't read like AI slop to me.

Overuse of bulleted lists, unnecessary sensationalism, sentences like "The requests flew. There was no WAF, no IP blocking, no CAPTCHA." and so on. It reeks of someone pasting some notes into a chat prompt and asking it to spruce it up for publication.

Pattern recognition skill issue then. It did to me.

"The fallout"

This flaw was critical.

And other vibes. You know it when you see it, though it may be hard to define.


> You know it when you see it

How do you know your perception is accurate? One of humanity's biggest weaknesses is trusting that kind of response.


Maybe just try having confidence in yourself. Trust your instincts. I'm not going to impugn my own abilities based on some purported flaw in an abstract amorphous blog called "humanity", whatever that is. A lot of individuals of distinction have many characteristics better than the average, why wouldn't I trust myself more than other people?

Pattern recognition is a many millions of years evolved ability best exemplified in the "human" species by the way, so I basically disagree with your whole premise anyways.


The Brown killer was basically caught by a homeless man getting a bad vehicle about the future shooter. So I agree, trusting your gut is definitely a thing.

People believe in witchcraft and lots of other things - including many horrible prejudices - just as confidently as you. There's a reason any scholarship, courts, medicine, and any other serious endeavors require objective evidence.

Imagine that - doctors, who have seen everything, have years of study, treat all those people, still require objective evidence. Anyone in IT looks for objective evidence - timing, stepping through code, etc.

Confidence doesn't correlate well with accuracy; in fact the more someone expresses your kind of confidence, the less I rely on them at all.

What if you wrongfully accuse someone? Does that matter? Are you responsible for the consequences of what you do?


You turn your brain off and outsource your thinking to other people, because you're incapable of perceiving reality for yourself, is what you're telling me.

Of course everyone is responsible for their accuracy and their errors, doesn't mean it's impossible to infer things based on observation experience and intuition. This is an evolved ability, but I do agree some people are better than others like most things.

You're conflating a lot of things. Many prejudices are accurate and prudent, which craft is stupid, but so what? I'm not going to deny my perception on something that's correct just because some other idiot believes in magic; non sequitur.


It's really a bizarre argument. You are making evidence-free claims, based on nothing - including the things you say about me. It discards all of critical thought, empiricism, reasoning, philosophy, etc. ....

It's definitely AI dude

Have you ever tested your accuracy? I think there are tests out there.

What is the AI slop version of “This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.”

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'Having seen this cognitive payload a lot in my time' maybe? I like the idea.

> This incident is a stark reminder

A stark reminder is a stark reminder about the existence of AI slop. You see the phrase a lot in social media comment spam.


There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.

Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.

There are dozens of us.

Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…



(a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz.

(b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.


not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.

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Unfortunately most of the benefit of this was undone by Apple's rollback of their family emoji rendering to just be shapes :/. Cool UX though!

The font is rendering as nearly invisible. I'm guessing due to some incorrect dark mode styling?

Yes indeed, thank you! Should have tested it in both modes

Did a similar deep dive for one of the posters for the cult classic movie Possession (1981). Just giving random phone numbers a call is incredibly effective, lots of people are happy to reminisce about old work and have great stories.


Very often these people are so humble and so amazed to find that anyone cares so much about some little project they did. I've brought some people to comic cons and they have been blown away by the fans they never knew they had. (and they always have fascinating industry stories to tell)


I'm glad that PHP has adopted more and more from Hack, Facebook's once fork and now completely separate language - https://hacklang.org/. It was never going to replace it (Go's success separate from Google has astounded me to be honest) but it heavily influencing PHP's direction feels like the best of both worlds.


I think Facebook just forking the language instead of helping with development gave them the kick up the ass to sort out the development process. Then it just came down to having no one actually working on the language, so they needed to create the PHP Foundation to pay people to work on it because all the major companies left it behind (Yahoo, Facebook, Zend, etc). So it's good to see it managed to survive that chaos and become a pretty good language.


The foundation is a very recent affair.

The real improvements all came from the hard work of the developers who were around during the 7.* releases who did excellent work.

Most importantly at that time we had Nikita Popov who was incredibly helpful.

Hack/HHVM definitely gave it a nice kick of motivation though.


What do you mean “separate from google”? Golang’s success is directly and exclusively based on google envy back in 2009-2012.


Their point is that Golang has seen adoption and use outside the Google ecosystem, which is perhaps surprising, and something few other "company languages" have managed (e.g. Swift is actually quite a nice language design, but almost no-one uses it unless they're deeply involved with the Apple ecosystem).


Swift started as closed source language exclusive for apple devices. Apple never was developer friendly outside of their ecosystem.

If I think about swift I think about ios apps (I know it can be more today, but their marketing for this language wasn't good).

So apple never wanted big adoption outside of their devices.


Sure, if you forget about C, Java, TypeScript, SQL, and many others.

Swift isn’t gaining much adoption because Apple aren’t putting much effort into promoting its use outside of the Apple ecosystem. And why would they when they don’t care about non-Apple stuff


> Sure, if you forget about C, Java, TypeScript, SQL, and many others.

C has had multiple implementations from multiple implementors for decades. Java wasn't really tied into Sun's ecosystem, and had an enormous marketing blitz. TypeScript was even less of a Microsoft "company language" - and I think it's interesting that Dart felt a lot more tied into everything Google was doing, but ultimately lost out.


Go isn’t tied to Googles infrastructure any more than any of the other languages.


Go has two things going for it, it was created by legends, so it gained a lot of interest from the beginning, and it has an excellent and unique runtime, making it really ideal for network services that constantly wait for something, yet still being able to do CPU intensive work. The language itself is just "OK" and that's kind of the point of it.


I think being able to just create cross platform binaries + having good tooling out of the box as well. You can get started with go very easily and sharing programs as binaries just removes a whole lot of issues you'd have in other languages.


I think they mean success in terms of Go being used outside Google? Versus hack/hhvm which had a pretty narrow window where it saw some limited outside adoption.


I ended up doing this with Screen Time, but not knowing my own passcode. Having a partner or close friend is generally the approach I'd recommend, but you can also do this with iPhone Mirroring — I wrote up a how to guide in https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/setting-an-unknown-screen-t....


I did something very similar for Fitness SF in the Bay Area!

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/custom-apple-wallet-passes


FYI your Wix portfolio URL is broken.


I don’t think it says anything useful for crawled but not indexed, unfortunately. My suspicion is that it’s almost always backlinks, but not totally sure.


Related, but to whichever PM put the "AI Mode" on the far left side of the toolbar, thus breaking the muscle memory from clicking "All" to get back from "Images", I expect some thanks for unintentionally boosting your CTR metrics.


That decision probably paid someone's new car. The KPIs will be excellent. Who cares about what the users might have wanted to do with their clicks.


Maybe have it forced hover under the mouse cursor next, maybe think of what the long term effect are instead of the KPIs.


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